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(Photo: AP)UN to discuss action on Syria
A Syrian army defector, waves the Syrian revolution flag and shouts slogans shortly after he defected with other soldiers and join the anti-Syrian regime protesters at Khalidiya area in Homs province, central Syria, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012...Full Story

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(Photo: WN / Priya Dashini)Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries
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Rachcha’s costly action sequence
| After the unimpressive Orange, Ram Charan Tej is leaving no stone unturned to make his upcoming film Rachcha a blockbuster, and crores of rupees have been spent on the action and item numbers. Producer R.B. Choudury had to shell out Rs 2 crore just for one action sequ...Full Story
Internet privacy is facing new threats
| It’s World Data Privacy Day today, an annual international event designed to promote awareness about privacy. Though it may chiefly interest government officials, corporations and technology experts and mavens, never was an occasion more needed than now. For privacy...Full Story
Jobs, jobs and cars
| Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring. But he did say something thought-provoking — and I mean that in...Full Story
National has plans but needs to be on the front foot
| This was the week John Key was to have set the political agenda. | It was the Prime Minister's first full week back after the summer break, the first cabinet meeting, the week of the state of the nation speech, the first overseas visit - to Australia. | Instead of pro...Full Story
Milking NZ's strategic assets
| New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, as is his habit, protests too much. | He sees the sale of the Crafar farms, which went into receivership in 2009, to Chinese-owned company Shanghai Pengxin, as "economic treason". | The Labour Party, too, has weighed in calling...Full Story
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Syria ramps up brutal crackdown
The Daily Telegraph Australia | SYRIA has stepped up a deadly crackdown on dissent, as activists said almost 100 people died in two days of violence. | The brutal crackdown came ahead of a bid to condemn Damascus at the UN Security Council. | The head of the Arab League monitorin...
Battlefield of the future
NZ Herald | A secret war is being waged that is changing the nature of conflict. The internet is the new combat zone, where nation strikes against nation, spy against spy and corporation raids corporation. Phil Taylor reports | Late last year Australia and the...
How to make millions and save the world
NZ Herald | Promising science and technology companies are in and out of fashion so fast it is hard keep up with them all. | It doesn't help that most of them have names that make them sound like sci-fi villains or Austrian techno DJs. | The science can also b...
Key hits stride with Crafar farms decision
NZ Herald | The Crafar decision is a victory for economic rationalism over blind xenophobic nationalism. Long may the former reign. | Instead of bowing to whipped-up public pressure (which it can't do anyway without breaking the law and marring New Zealand's i...
Tough terms in Crafar decision
NZ Herald | The Overseas Investment Office approved the sale of the 16 Crafar farms to Shanghai Pengxin despite the Chinese bid stumbling at several important hurdles - such as job creation, introducing new technology and allowing New Zealand control in the bu...
Key starts political year in defensive mode
NZ Herald | This was the week John Key was to have set the political agenda. | It was the Prime Minister's first full week back after the summer break, the first Cabinet meeting, the week of the state-of-the-nation speech, the first overseas visit - to Austral...
Editorial: NZ's interests must be kept in mind
NZ Herald | In coming to any view of the sale of the Crafar farms to a Chinese-owned company, the national interest must be kept clearly in mind. The national interest lies in seeing all economic assets in the hands of those who will develop them for the best ...
Syrian make-over awaits league's next peace pitch
Canberra Times | WASHINGTON: Dictators and autocrats seeming to promote democracy should be treated with scepticism. But, as an Arab League delegation heads to New York to brief the United Nations on its latest pitch for peace in Syria, it needs to be heard - caref...
Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries
Gulf News | San Francisco: Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. | The additional flexibility announced on Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as...
Syria violence spikes as diplomacy heats up
The Australian | SYRIAN forces yesterday stepped up their deadly crackdown on dissent, with activists reporting almost 100 dead in two days, as violence spiked ahead of a bid to condemn Damascus at the UN Security Council. | The head of the Arab League monitoring m...
Syria violence spikes as diplomacy heats up
The Daily Telegraph Australia | SYRIAN forces yesterday stepped up their deadly crackdown on dissent, with activists reporting almost 100 dead in two days, as violence spiked ahead of a bid to condemn Damascus at the UN Security Council. | The head of the Arab League monitoring m...
All the tidbits you might have missed from Melbourne Park
The Daily Telegraph Australia | DAVIS CUP PROCESSION? | You've got to love Pat Rafter's inability to talk rubbish. | The Davis Cup captain tried to talk up the ability of China's Davis Cup team ahead of the February 10-12 tie, but failed miserably. | Australia effortlessly beat C...
Fri 27 Jan 2012
China Deploys Heavy Military in Tibet's Lhasa, One Man Arrested
WorldNews.com Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. | Dharamshala: - Chinese police have arrested and detained a Tibetan man in Tibet's capital Lhasa on January 25, with a heavy military and police presence deployed in the capital after several ...
No Celebration of New Year, Instead International Solidarity and a Voice for Tibet: Tibetan PM
WorldNews.com Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. | Dharamshala: - Dr. Lobsang Sangay, elected political leader of the Tibetan government in exile, called for Tibetans around the world to forego Losar (Tibetan New Year) this year "to pay tribu...
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